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F-35 HOTAS
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This solicitation, identified as FA930226Q0080, seeks commercial-off-the-shelf F-35 Simulation Hands on Throttle and Stick Systems (HOTAS) for delivery to Edwards Air Force Base, California, under a 100% Total Small Business Set-Aside. The requirement is for five pairs of HOTAS units designed for desktop mounting, with strict technical specifications including USB or Ethernet connectivity, 5V bus power via USB without external bricks, shielded 1.8-meter cables with inline ferrite beads, native plug-and-play compatibility with Windows, FENIX, SUSE, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux on both x86_64 and arm64 architectures, and full compliance with TAA and NDAA Section 889 regulations. All units must support ruggedized USB Type-B on the device side and standard USB Type-A on the host, with no proprietary drivers required. The acquisition uses Simplified Acquisition Procedures and will be awarded on a Lowest Price Technically Acceptable basis, where technical acceptability is determined first based on conformance to the Statement of Requirement, followed by evaluation of the lowest qualified price. Quote submissions are due by 9:00 AM Pacific Daylight Time on July 20, 2026, and must be sent via email to two designated points of contact, with a hard limit of 10MB per submission. Offerors must provide complete contractor information including SAM UEI, TIN, CAGE Code, name, payment terms, point of contact details, warranty, expiration date, FOB Destination, delivery lead time, and a technical approach describing how the requirement will be met. Pricing must cover the full CLIN 0001 for five pairs of units, with a 160-day period of performance from award and delivery to a designated destination at Edwards AFB. Contract award will be made without discussions unless deemed necessary by the Contracting Officer, so offers must include the offeror’s best technical and price terms initially. The successful vendor must be registered in SAM.gov, use Wide Area Workflow for invoicing and receiving reports, comply with all applicable clauses including prohibitions on covered telecommunications equipment and hexavalent chromium, and demonstrate the capability to sanitize and remove hardware from classified spaces, including wiping non-volatile memory. The North American Industry Classification System code is 336413, with a size standard of 1,250 employees, making eligibility for the
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Edwards, CA, 93524, USASet-Aside
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Submission Closed
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Amendment 2- Deadline extended to July 31, 2026.
Q&A Deadline exended to July 29, 2026 at 12 PM PDT
Statement of Requirement Updated in Attachments
Q&A Answers Revised and Updated in Attachments
Amendment 1- Q&A Posted as an Attachment
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This is a Request for Quote (RFQ) Solicitation for the acquisition of F-35 Simulation Hands on Throttle and Stick Systems (HOTAS) at Edwards AFB.
Please see attachments for further details.
(i) This is a solicitation for commercial supply prepared in accordance with the format in RFO 5.201(c), as supplemented with additional information included in this notice. This announcement constitutes the only solicitation; quotes are being requested and a written solicitation will not be issued. The Simplified Acquisition Procedures (RFO 12.201-1) will be used for this requirement.
(ii) Solicitation Number: FA930226Q0080 **Please provide the full solicitation number on all packages**
Interested parties who believe they can meet all the requirements for the supply described in this solicitation are invited to submit, in writing, a complete quote.
Offerors may utilize the attached SF1449 to complete quote information in addition to a separate quote (in PDF format); ensuring the quote contains information and pricing for all contract line items (CLINs) included on the SF1449. Offerors are required to submit with their quote enough information for the Government to evaluate the requirements detailed in this solicitation. Offerors shall submit quotes via email, please note the maximum file size is 10MB. Emails over this file size will not be received. Submit only written offers; oral offers will not be accepted.
This solicitation is issued as a Request for Quote (RFQ).
(iii) This solicitation document and incorporated provisions and clauses are in effect through Federal Acquisition Circular 2025-06, DFARS Change 10/24/2025 and DAFAC 2024-1016.
(iv) THIS REQUIREMENT WILL BE: 100% Total Small Business Set-Aside. The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) number for this acquisition is 336413 "Other Aircraft Part and Auxiliary Equipment Manufacturing " with a size standard 1,250 employees.
(v) Period of Performance is 160 days ARO.
(vi) The provision at RFO 52.212-1, Instructions to Offerors--Commercial Products and Commercial Services (Sep 2023), applies to this acquisition. Provisions and clauses can be viewed via internet at Acquisition.gov, https://www.acquisition.gov/.
Offerors shall prepare their quotations in accordance with RFO 52.212-1. In addition, the following information shall be included:
PROVIDE THE FOLLOWING CONTRACTOR INFORMATION WITHIN YOUR QUOTE:
1. SAM UEI:
2. TIN Number:
3. CAGE Code:
4. Contractor Name:
5. Payment Terms (NET 30) or Discount:
6. Point of Contact Name and Phone Number:
7. Email address:
8. Price:
9. Warranty:
10. Date Offer Expires:
11. FOB Destination:
12. Delivery Lead Time/ Period of Performance Terms:
13. Technical Approach:
All questions are due on 29 July 2026 at 12:00PM Pacific Daylight Time.
Quotes are due on 31 July 2026 at 9:00AM Pacific Daylight Time.
All questions and quotes must be sent to jenna.jacobson@us.af.mil and paola.diaz.1@us.af.mil.
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The provision at FAR 52.212-2, Evaluation—Commercial Products and Commercial Services (Nov 2021) applies to this acquisition. The Government will award a contract resulting from this solicitation to the responsible offeror whose offer conforming to the solicitation will be most advantageous to the Government, price and other factors considered. The following factors shall be used to evaluate offers:
***Please read the evaluation criteria closely. If vendor does not provide a full response, it will be found unresponsive***
The solicitation provides that quotations will be evaluated using Lowest Price Technically Acceptable (LTPA). The award will be made on the basis of the lowest evaluated price of proposals meeting or exceeding the acceptability standards for technical acceptability. This factor is the: (1) Ability to provide the required F-35 HOTAS as defined in the attached SOR. The agency will first rank quotations according to price, from lowest to highest, and will evaluate the lowest-priced quotation as either technically acceptable or unacceptable, reserving the right to evaluate additional quotations for technical acceptability if deemed to be in the best interest of the government.
Evaluation Factors:
1. Price
2. Technically Acceptability
The Government will award a purchase order resulting from the solicitation to the responsible offeror whose quote is fully responsive to the solicitation.
The clause at RFO 52.212-4, Contract Terms and Conditions-- Commercial Products and Commercial Services (Nov 2023), applies to this acquisition.
Additional Contract Requirement or Terms and Conditions: N/A
Defense Priorities and Allocation System (DPAS): N/A
Quote Submission Information: It is the government's intent to award without discussions. Therefore, each initial quote should contain the offeror's best terms from a price and technical standpoint. However, the government reserves the right to conduct discussions if the Contracting Officer (CO) determines that discussions are necessary.
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